Can you get asteroid insurance on a moom plain?
"Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1969."
Make the tax cuts permanent before going to the moon.
This is a necessity. Current projections show that by 2020 our stockpiles of moon pies will be perilously low.
Don't they have the old plans for the Saturn V rocket? It did the trick before.
Yawn! Why don't they offer a $10 Billion dollar prize for the company who can establish, maintain, and operate a lunar base for 25 personnel for two years?
Do we really need a socialistic, bloated governmental agency (NASA ...we fly the shuttle (and sometimes it works)) to spend $100 Billion to do what has already been done.
I don't think so!
$8.33 bil/year
That's 0.167% of a $5tril budget.
FIFTY YEARS LATER!
We've also flown a plane nonstop across the Atlantic before. Should we stop doing that too?
That's just sad. We landed on the moon 8 years after Kennedy's announcement. Now, after 35 years of technological advancement, it takes 15 years? What the heck has NASA been doing?
Cool we can do it all over again for only $100B.
I love the idea, in general, but have one bit of confusion.
Why did it take America less than 1 decade to go from NOTHING to the Moon in the 60's - with primitive computers & electronics & no space experiance, but this new plan is going to take more than a decade to get to where we were 30+ years ago? And now we have lots of experiance & much better technology?
I think there's a good possibility that some private enterprise effort will beat NASA back to the moon.
Hey Congress, go tell NASA to find "private donors" for this project.
With the money the taxpayers have spent on space exploration so far, we could have a nationwide mass transit system, an incredibly advanced military ( more so than it is now ), and New Orleans wouldn`t be flooded right now.
If private business invested in space exploration all these years, I would believe there would be people on the moon right now,.... on vacation.
Yeah, but think if it like this.......at least the wing nuts who claim the original moon landings were nothing but a big hoax will be proven wrong once and for all. I actually know people who think this is true, that NASA faked the whole thing.
It's not worth that much money though.......
Thats a lot of Tang.
Hey, I'll go -- so long as I'm stationed up there with Lt. Ellis.
Yes, but this time we're going to build a giant "LASER" there, and hold the Earth ransom for.... 1 million dollars! mu-wa-ha-ha, mu-wa-ha-ha
I am in favor of returning to the Moon..
but a question: Instead of spending 100 billion, why not pull the Apollo blueprints out of mothballs? If it worked then, it will work now.
Well, considering that the original space program paid itself off several hundred fold in spinoffs and new technologies that led to growth. . . a good space program is effectively a VERY large Tax cut. . .